Yesterday i went to the McDonald Road SDA church just a 25-minute walk from where i stay. It is seen by most as a fairly “strong conservative” church. When i arrived in the sanctuary, i thot how luxurious it was, with the carpet being especially nice. I thot to myself (in my cynical/life experienced way), they probably are thinking about ripping it up to lay down new carpet. Well, in the announcement time, they announced…. “We have purchased new carpet and are asking for help on some Sunday to take the pews out so we can lay down the new carpet.” The first thing that went thru my head was “building bigger barns”. How can we read our Bibles and profess to follow and believe what God says, and then by our actions just totally ignore those words? So i guess those people in the Himalayan hills in Sikkim state, who finally got their very first church last year, will have to wait maybe a few more years/forever for electricity to their church, or a heater, or just about anything except a hard concrete floor and open-air windows. And yet, i haven’t heard anyone there complain – they’re actually happy to have an enclosed building to worship in. But who knows how long to wait for funds to build the next one in the province capital?
Do unto others what you want them to do to you.
Isn’t that part of everyone’s Bible? How will we be able to face the Creator of the heavens and the earth in that great day of judgment and he says: “Did you feed/water/clothe/visit/care for the needy?” Will we say “Oh Lord, we allocated 2% of church budget to those things”?
Maybe having red carpet on the church floor instead of blue will please God more than to have 2 extra churches where God’s family can grow?
We have a red carpet and some want to change it to blue!! 🙂
I could care less as long as it is clean and does not smell badly.